It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.